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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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